Purple Gallery

Purple Gallery opened in April 2005 and is located in Mary Vale Road - just opposite the main entrance to The Bournville Almshouses built in 1898 by Richard Cadbury for the benefit of the workers of the Cadbury's factory.  The gallery hosts around six exhibitions each year and features the very best contemporary artwork created by British and European artists.  Cream Teas are served in the Sculpture Garden at the rear of the property during finer weather.

Bournville is an historic and picturesque area on the south side of the city, known for its connections with the Cadbury family.  The roads of the Bournville Estate were lined with trees as part of an initiative in by-gone days by the Cadbury family, who built cottages and houses adjacent to their new factory to give their workers a better environment to live in.    The stream called the Bourn which runs through the park, runs west-to-east through the factory site and to this the Cadbury brothers added the French word ville meaning ‘town’, for it was fashionable at that time for confectionery to be thought to be French or Swiss.